GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MEDICAL CONGRESS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, February 10. A progressive Medical Congress ir* opening here next Monday. The svib-y-ots ineltule a <ii><-ussion in regard to the relation between friendly societies and surgeons, the compulsory physical training of the young, the cadet movement. ami the attitude of the profession towards the growing abuse of hospitals liy people in good positions. ItAJ IAVAY IMVIiOY KM IvNTS. Ashliurton, i'Vhniary lil. The IFon. Millar, speaking «n railway improvements, said if this work is expected to be done out of revenue, as it is claimed by many writers and speakers, it cannot be and has no right to be. There is only one way in which it, can be done. mid "that is by an increase <n" the railway rates. It seemed unfair to charge present users with tins expenditure. leaving future generations fully equipped with lines free of cost. A certain amount of borrowed money will be necessary. not for maintenance, but for new equipments, which lo his mind are a fair charge against futur«* generations.

]M\\l<:i!ATlo>; A SI) I'NKMI'I.UVMHXT. Auckland, February ID. A >trect meeting of unemployed, fairly well attended, passed resolutions urging the Governor to take steps to prevent agents and lecturers at Home from advocating New Zealand as a place foi emigrants and making untruthful representations: also asking the Government to procure information by wire from etlicient labor bureaus in the large centres, and, if necessary, to take steps to provide work to absorb the surplus labor.